I will be getting a new 7 inch galaxy tab 3 tomorrow.
On all my previous android devices I have root and rom'd and I will probably do the same here...

Any suggestions on must haves and must nots? Would be very appreciated!

The only Samsung I have ever rooted was an old galaxy several years ago...is Odin still the way to go? I think that's what it was called...

Is there kit kat available for this tab?

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To root you must also use Odin for flashing Recovery and root.
Depent of what kind of Tab you have , so you become KK.
Tab3 SM-T217 S has KK now from Samsung
all other has V 4.1.2 or the Tab 3lite has V4.2.2

I finally got it and its the sm-t110 I think?
Anyways i updated all the software updates out of the box then followed some guide ( don't have the link sorry ) and using odin flashed twrp.
Then I flashed a lite ROM from a thread here on xda.

Everything is running great, no issues what so ever as of now.

I do have a question about restoring to stock.
If I ever want to, if I use Odin to flash the stock firmware will it give me the stock recovery back?

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